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Personal History
Lyle Stuart

Personal History

Vincent Sheean

This autobiographical memoir combines European reporting, observations on interwar politics and culture, and the author's own coming-of-age memories. Through those personal experiences, it builds a portrait of the intellectual landscape of the 1930s.

Left Hand Darkness
Ace

Left Hand Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Set on an ice-bound planet, the novel uses contact with a species whose sex is fluid to probe gender, cross-cultural understanding, and politics. Through the eyes of a diplomat, it philosophically examines loneliness, trust, and social structure.

A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS
Knopf

A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS

Peter Taylor

A man drawn back to Memphis by family conflict looks back on his father, his sisters, and the remembered world of the old South.

ジャン・クリストフ 1 (岩波文庫 赤 555-1)
岩波書店

ジャン・クリストフ 1 (岩波文庫 赤 555-1)

ロマン・ロラン, 豊島 与志雄

Jean-Christophe is an epic sequence tracing the life of musician Jean-Christophe. Through youthful setbacks, creative struggle, love, and friendship, it probes personal formation, artistic purpose, and the cultural transformation of modern Europe.

The Park
Red Dust

The Park

Philippe Sollers

From a window, the narrator watches the street, the building opposite, and the words appearing in his notebook. Philippe Sollers lets present time, memory, observation, and imagination blur into one another in an early experimental novel.